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Iran backs away from censoring whole websites

Iran’s current approach to internet censorship typically isn’t subtle — either you get unfettered access or (more often) you don’t see a site at all. However the country’s government is about to take a more measured approach to blocking online con…

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‘The Interview’ is already Sony’s most popular online movie to date

There was a ton of hoopla about Sony releasing The Interview through internet services before it even hit theaters but how much did this not-entirely-intentional experiment in online distribution pan out? Quite well if you ask Sony. It just reveale…

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Tumblr CEO: Focusing on storytelling and self-expression

Tumblr founder excited about social storytelling

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You only need a camera (and luck) to copy someone’s fingerprints

Forget having to lift smudges from a touchscreen to copy someone’s fingerprints. According to a Chaos Computer Club presentation you only need a camera… well that and a little luck. The hacking association’s Jan Krissler recently demonstrated tha…

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For Qualcomm China settlement may be just the beginning

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) – The settlement of China’s anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm’s highly profitable patent licensing business and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.

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Twitter login bug kicks users out (update: resolved)

Did your Twitter app suddenly give you the boot or otherwise behave strangely? It’s not just you. The social network has confirmed a sign-in problem that’s kicking out hordes of users (so far mostly on Android) and preventing them from logging back …

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Viewpoint: Apple’s iPhone launches no longer excite

‘Fake Steve Jobs’ calls the iPhone maker a copycat

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Spotted at IDF: NEC’s lightweight LaVie Z Ultrabook (hands-on video)

Remember NEC’s LaVie Z Ultrabook we first heard about at Computex? It’s a super light (875g / 1.93 lbs) and thin (15mm / 0.59-inch) magnesium alloy system running Windows 7 that’s only available in Japan and we just spotted it here at IDF 2012 in San Francisco. Spec-wise you’re looking at a 1.9GHz third-generation (Ivy Read More